There have again been death threats to members of the Guatemalan
Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAFG), in particular against Fredy
Peccerelli, executive director.

Since 1994, Rights Action has been supporting Mayan communities across
Guatemala digging up the mass graves where their loved ones were dumped
during the years of repression and genocide. This exhumation work would not
have been possible with out the courageous work of the Forensic Anthropology
Teams. Since the first Team was formed in 1992, death threats have been
constant.

The work of the Forensic Teams is crucial to efforts to tell the truth
about Guatemala’s repression and genocide, to efforts to have justice done
for these crimes against humanity.

ON AUGUST 26, 2005: Jeannette Peccerelli, Fredy's wife, was in her car
at a stoplight, when two men approached her. One put a gun against her head
and told her they were watching Fredy, while he pushed her head. And then
they left.

ON SEPTEMBER 8, 2005: Omar Giron Bertoni, who works for the FAFG and
is Fredy's brother-in-law, received an anonymous note at his home,
threatening the entire Team, as well as his wife Bianca Peccerelli (Fredy’s
sister). The death threat - addressed to Omar - said that people working at the
FAFG will be punished for their work; that previous threats were just an
initial message and that now they will have to use other means to stop these
“sons of bitches that continue to do this work."

PLEASE WRITE your own political representatives and media outlets, and
the following offices demanding protection and security for members of the
FAFG and demanding an end to the impunity with which the powerful sectors
continue to act in Guatemala.

Sr. Julio Godoy, Ministerio de Gobernacion, Vice Ministro
(vice-secretary of state)
T: (502) 2361-5916. E: magaly@mingob.gob.gt

Sr. Juan Luis Florido, Fiscal General (Attorney General), Ministerio
Publico
E: fiscalgeneral@mp.lex.gob.gt, agudiel@mp.lex.gob.gt,
cgonzalez@mp.lex.gob.gt

Embassy of Guatemala in USA
Ambassador Jose Guillermo Castillo, F: 202 745 1908, E:
ambassador@guatemala-embassy.org

Embassy of Guatemala in Canada
Ambassador Carlos Jiménez, F: 613 233 0135, E:
embassy1@embaguate-canada.ca
embguate@ottawa.net

Ambassador James Derham
U.S. Embassy in Guatemala
F: 502 2326-4000

Embassy of Canada in Guatemala
E: gtmla@dfait-maeci.gc.ca

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For more information about the exhumation process and about Mayan
community needs to dig up the mass graves across the country, so as to give their
loved ones a decent and caring burial, contact: info@rightsaction.org,
t: 416-654-2074.